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@jennyrozelle Don’t love anyone or anything and don’t make any promises you want to keep even after you die. All set.

No estate plan? No problem. 
Just don’t die. Foolproof. 👌🏼

@RMFandago All I do is miss you and the way things used to be. All I do is keep the beat the bad company A favorite song of my friends in college. The Indigo Girls version. I was always partial to the original

“I can’t do the talks like the talk on the tv..”

@JoshKale @DrPippaM Does it go to a different high school?

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

@JamesSurowiecki @AriCohn @CathyYoung63 James, do you see conversion therapy as a medical treatment?

@AriCohn @CathyYoung63 She only got "shivved" if you agree with Kagan that conversion therapy is a "viewpoint" and not a medical treatment.

The 9th justice got absolutely shivved by Justice Kagan

@VoyaWolfProject Well played

We captured the first image of caribou in Minnesota in over 112 years last summer, and the first observation of caribou in the continental US in years!  We suspect these caribou ventured south from northern Ontario, where there are established populations. Caribou were native to northern Minnesota but unfortunately, in the early 1900s due to intensive logging and habitat change, they disappeared from the state.  After capturing the images, we immediately shared our finding with government biologists as we do with all of our observations of other rare wildlife  (e.g., cougars). But we never got a response so we resent the images. The next day we got a response from someone at the Office of Ecological Optimization—an agency we had never heard of. He said the caribou actually were not wild caribou but rather caribou from a reindeer farm in northern Minnesota that had accidentally escaped. Obviously, that was pretty disappointing to hear we didn’t actually get images of wild caribou.  We asked where the farm was and how far the caribou had traveled but the person said they were not allowed to say because it was private information. Out of curiosity, we googled reindeer farms in northern Minnesota and could not find anything, and we dropped it.  Two days later, we got a call from a government biologist who told us the entire 'caribou farm' story was a cover, and the 'Office of Ecological Optimization' was just a name for division of D.O.G.E. whose primary aim was to “maximize conservation results with minimal fiscal bloat”. Turns out, the government did not want any evidence of wild caribou, an endangered species, in the lower 48 states because of the other endangered species that generally accompanies them. As our biologist colleague told us: “Recovering caribou populations would not be the issue. The real issue is that where there are caribou, there are Homo sasquatchis, and where there are sasquatchis, there is a money pit". Apparently, the relationship between caribou and H. sasquatchis is believed to be the precursor to human domestication of livestock, a sort of proto-farming—a symbiotic relationship between hominid and ruminant. Specifically, H. sasquatchis travel with the caribou during migrations and keep predators away. At the same time, female caribou nurse the sasquatchis neonates. In 1857, field biologist Dr. Getta Leif wrote: “there lay a caribou on her side, a small sasquatchis suckling on each teat. All animals looked to be in a deep state of peace, content with the magnificent order of the universe. How I longed to be a sasquatchis in that moment...”. Like caribou, H. sasquatchis populations have declined dramatically due to myriad reasons including a fatal hominid mouth fungus (biologists refer to it as the "timber tongue”) that spread amongst sasquatchis colonies in North America in the early 1900s. Restoring the populations of North America’s most ancient hominid is expensive. H. sasquatchis take years to sexually mature, and outbreaks of the fatal "timber tongue” in captive rearing facilities have proved difficult to control. As our biologist colleague put it “it is more convenient if the caribou just disappear”. Naturally, we were perplexed by all of this and reached out, as we always do in troubling times, to the well-known ethologist, Dr. Whors Manoor, an esteemed colleague of ours we have mentioned a few times before on our socials.  Unfortunately, we were sad to learn he recently had been hospitalized due to a zoonotic disease he contracted at a captive H. sasquatichis research facility. His wife said the disease, likely the timber tongue, was "like chicken pox but in your mouth”—a mental image that is hard to forget. We visited Whors in the hospital and it was a sad sight. He looked like a shell of his former self—the sasquatchis disease had humbled yet another intellectual giant. On his notepad by his bed were the words: “Don’t believe everything you see”. We ruminated on this riddle while he slept: could this be the profound wisdom so many have come to expect from Dr. Manoor? Or was it just the madness of the timber tongue?  We told him about everything and showed him the images. He looked at the images for a few moments and then stared out the small hospital window, as if ruminating on what he might say. Eventually he turned toward us, and an anger flared in his eyes. Despite his sickness, his voice become deep and powerful, like Gandalf: “You fools! Think about how many poor folks just wasted 10 minutes of their life reading this garbage! And worst yet, think about the poor souls who shared the post online before reading the whole thing!” We left dejected and perplexed—this kind of response was out of character. Was Whors thinking clearly or was it just the timber tongue talking? Guess we will never know.

@markcecchini Is she fully aware of the lost opportunity cost involved here? In all seriousness, congratulations Mark. Good wishes for your family.

its official, my wife is getting induced on Monday morning she said I cannot live tweet the events as they unfold so much for supporting my content efforts

@jennyrozelle I admire your dedication

Happy Monday! It’s a 3-day work week for me because, for the first time ever, I actually remembered to take Thursday and Friday off for the first round of March Madness. LET'S GO!

@markcecchini Much much smaller than yours. Dog caught a little skunk spray. Two trips for hydrogen peroxide. 2 dog baths and counting. Lots of laundry. 5 minutes with assistant to triage before she suggested one of the peroxide treatments should be for me

Today has been a complete wash for productivity. 18 m/o stomach bug day 2, won't stop crying. Now 35-week pregnant wife has it, arguably worse. Came home from office at 11 to take over. some things are much, much bigger.

"I don't know why the federal government doesn't do them anyway"...uh...the CONSTITUTION. Which you took an oath (more than once) to defend and protect. Is he unaware? Or does he know? Which would you choose? Neither choice looks good.

@RepThomasMassie @RepAndyBarr is pretty quiet.

If your representative, Democrat or Republican, is still silent about the Epstein files, or claiming it’s “much ado about nothing,” it’s time to elect a new one. Check their public statements today.

@dccommonsense The silence of Congressional GOP after Trumps latest Greenland post is exhibit A

@dccommonsense I think Congress has done an amazing job convincing us the problems of the country all track back to the Presidency. They have abdicated all power and responsibility. Leaving a bunch of power hungry cos-players

The cowardice of Congress is the best argument ever that term limits would be better than what we have now. If losing your precious House seat is so important to you that you will jettison all morals, constitutional oaths and civic pride you shouldn't have the job to begin with.

@AndyStumpf77 Just listened to your podcast. Really think you gave the shooter a pass on the killing. Suggested she should have reconsidered her actions bu no mention of his.

In this episode I answer two listener-submitted questions that couldn’t be more different. The first is a deep dive into immigration enforcement and the recent ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis. I break down what authorities ICE agents actually have (and don’t have), what likely happened tactically, and why this issue continues to expose just how divided the country is. No hot takes—just context, law, and reality as I see it. The second question shifts gears to mindset and self-confidence heading into a military selection process. We talk about preparation beyond physical training, how confidence is built (not imagined), and how to show up ready when it actually counts. As always, these are my perspectives based on experience—not hype, not shortcuts.

@jennyrozelle I use the phrase "hit by falling space junk" as a way to make the idea of dying a little less real. I had one client tell me that her husband would be the guy saying, "That's not going to hit us, looks like it's going to veer east."

He’s not wrong 😂

Just ran into a client in our shared coffee shop/office. He tells me he bought 5 tickets to the Billion dollar lottery. He figures we'll have things to discuss after the drawing. Trusts, taxes, trips to Spain. He says with 5 tickets he can't lose right? I love this job.

@jennyrozelle For sure. There’s always room for pro bono. For “using our powers for good.” But how much good can we really do over the hair dryer or in the grocery aisle?

@joshcontext Not to mention, in the above situation, my bleeding heart took over. 😆 We just care, Josh!

Me: getting a relaxing blowout The stylist: "So what do you do?" Me: “Law … I do estate and elder law … like Wills, Trusts, etc.” The stylist: "Oh, you may be able to help … my father-in-law just passed away…” Me: proceeds to shout legal gobbledygook over the hairdryer for 30 minutes

@jennyrozelle Let me emphasize that phrase is one I’m working on using more. It’s hard not to try and fix the problem right there.

@joshcontext 💯💯💯

@jennyrozelle One of the greatest gifts of my jobs is I don't work with people I don't like. There isn't a vendor that doesn't have competition. If a prospective client doesn't like me, the worst thing I could do for all involved is somehow convince them to sign on to work with me.

Case in point: I once terminated our relationship with a client who made deeply inappropriate remarks to my team member. When I confronted them about it, not only did they repeat the comments to my face, they somehow managed to make them even more offensive. Do I regret it? Not for a second.

@jennyrozelle I’ve heard of parents telling their children not to do a test. Better you don’t know how Irish you are if you want to inherit.

I've been saying this was coming. 🫣